** BRAZIL. 4877.34v, Radio Roraima, 0350-0359*, Nov 24, Portuguese announcements. IDs. Portuguese pop music. National Anthem at 0355. Frequency slightly unstable and slightly distorted. Was on 4877.31 at 0350. 4877.28 at 0355. 4877.34 at 0357. 4877.30 at 0359. (Alexander-PA) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, Radio Africa, 1558-1605, Nov 23, tune-in just in time to hear a Radio Africa ID along with email address and contact information. US produced English religious programming at 1559. Fair. (Alexander-PA) ** MALI. 5995, RTVM, 2350-0002*, Nov 23-24, strong carrier only. No audio heard. Quite a difference from just 16-18 hours earlier when they had a very good, strong signal with talk and Afro-pop music. (Alexander-PA) ** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0830+, Nov 24, sign on with local flute IS and opening French ID announcements. Vernacular talk at 0801. Rustic local flute music at 0808. Local guitar music. Indigenous vocals. Far signal strength but deteriorated to a very weak condition by 0830. (Alexander-PA) ** NIGER. 9705.58v, LV du Sahel, 2100-2300*, Nov 23, only heard vernacular talk at various checks during this time period. Qur`an at 2254. Flute IS and National Anthem at 2258. Short test tone at 2300 and off. Threshold signal at 2100. Slowly improved to a weak but readable signal by sign off. Frequency still drifting. Measured on 9705.58 at 2100, slowly drifting down to 9705.40 at 2215 and 9705.39 at sign off. (Alexander-PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925, XFM, 0520-0535, Nov 24, lite pop music. IDs. Music request. Email address: _xfmshortwave@gmail_ (mailto:xfmshortwave@gmail) . com. Poor to fair in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA) ** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Rave on Radio, 2300-2345, Nov 23, Neil Young music. IDs. Poor. Weak in noisy conditions. (Alexander-PA) ** ZIMBABWE [non]. via MADAGASCAR. 12105.01, Radio Dialogue, 1600-1700*, Nov 23, threshold signal, barely audible at 1600 tune-in. Gradually improved to a fair level by 1630 and a good signal by sign off. Mix of vernacular and English with discussion about Zimbabwe and fighting inside the country. Some Afro-pop music. At 1657 gave schedule, email address, phone numbers, IDs, website address: radiodialogue.com. Sign off with announcement: “You are listening to Channel ZIM”. (Alexander-PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
